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Zhang Xiaojun Podcast· Oct 21, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersDavid Qian on Succession, Robotics, and Finding His Own AmbitionGuest David Qian (Qian Cheng) · Host 张小珺Ecovacs CEO David Qian reflects on inheriting a founder-built company, learning to lead through mistakes, and choosing a patient path in robotics. His account treats succession as an ongoing effort to build the company for a new era, not a finish line.
2:51:18ENZhang Xiaojun Podcast· Oct 15, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersLindon Gao on Building Dyna Robotics and Finding a Path Through the FogGuest Lindon Gao · Host 张小珺Dyna Robotics CEO Lindon Gao explains why his company builds intelligence through real workflows, how hardware and research must evolve together, and how a founder can find clarity by letting go of the need to be right.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 3, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersArm’s 98.5% margin business just started shipping chipsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCEO Rene Haas tells No Priors why the IP company built a physical CPU for Meta, and why CPUs still sit at the center of AI systems.
49:20ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 23, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of Ask DoorDash Orders Hit a New Restaurant. In Ten Years There Will Be More Dashers, Not Fewer.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilCo-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang tell Sarah Guo how a conversational ordering interface moved DoorDash's hardest metric, why they built a 300-pound delivery robot in-house, and why autonomy means more human riders, not less.
38:01ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 14, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Philippines Gifted America 4,000 Acres. Pax Silica Wants to Make the AI Supply Chain a BusinessHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilUS Under Secretary Jacob Helberg on a 14-country coalition, a diplomatic industrial zone in the Philippines, and why Washington is putting companies—not ministries—in the driver's seat.
29:26ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 3, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersChatGPT Almost Became a Meeting Bot. Its Co-Creator Is Now Rearranging AtomsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilLiam Fedus tells No Priors how Periodic Labs is connecting language models to experiments so materials science can run in a closed loop.
1:16:21ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 8, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersJensen Huang’s Year-End Case That Token Costs Can Fall a Billion-Fold Without Killing JobsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn No Priors, NVIDIA’s CEO uses radiology, open source, and a $2 trillion R&D budget to argue that 2025’s extremes missed the stack.
40:46ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 19, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDoctors Are Rushing to AI. Robotics Will Take a Beating First.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil’s 2026 forecast for foundation models, IPOs, robotics, consumer agents, and the bets that are not about AI at all.
39:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 19, 2025Podcast · 2 speakers500 Gloves, 10 Million Trajectories, and a $10,000 Home RobotHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSunday Robotics co-founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi map the gap between a scalable imitation-learning recipe and a machine that actually does the dishes.
35:47ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFei-Fei Li’s new bet: AI is incomplete without spatial intelligenceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe ImageNet pioneer tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why World Labs is building 3D generative foundation models, and why language was only one piece of the puzzle.
35:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 20, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersRobots Have No Wikipedia. Chelsea Finn Is Starting With Three Buildings.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilPhysical Intelligence’s cofounder tells No Priors why a generalist robot model has to be trained across embodiments, why open-sourcing hardware is a bet against the problem going unsolved, and why humanoids are a little overrated.
38:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 20, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersKyle Vogt Pitched 120 Investors for Cruise. He Will Not Sell the Home-Robot CompanyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Twitch and Cruise co-founder tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why Tesla won on business model, why chores should be automated, and why a tiny AI-era team is enough.
44:30ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 24, 2024Podcast · 2 speakers100,000 Rides a Week, Six Times Fewer Airbag Crashes: Waymo’s Co-CEO on Eighteen Years of Full AutonomyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDmitri Dolgov tells No Priors how a dozen Googlers, ten 100-mile routes, and a 2013 refusal to settle for driver assist became a rider-only service with an insurer-audited safety record.
44:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA perfect demo is ten years from a product you can pay forHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAndrej Karpathy uses Waymo's decade-long gap, Tesla's software bet, and a new AI course to argue that autonomous intelligence will stall at product and globalization, not at the first impressive clip.
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Lex Fridman· Aug 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe first Neuralink patient beat a world record with most of his electrodes goneGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Elon Musk, the Neuralink team, and Noland Arbaugh about a wireless brain implant, the software that rescued it, and why bandwidth is Musk’s bet on living with AI.
25:56ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Prompt Cannot Hold a Good Design: Six AI Practitioners at Midyear 2024Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil stitch together clips from Stripe, Figma, Figure, OpenAI's Sora team, Cognition, and Scale into a half-year snapshot of what people actually shipping AI were willing to claim.
38:01ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 4, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of GDP Is Labor. Figure Wants Humanoids to Do the Work.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrett Adcock tells No Priors why a 21-month-old company raised $675 million to put general-purpose humanoid robots in factories first, then homes.
1:43:47ENLex Fridman· Feb 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersYou Have to Run Before You Can Walk: Marc Raibert on Making Metal Look AliveGuest Marc Raibert · Host Lex FridmanThe Boston Dynamics founder tells Lex Fridman why aggressive hopping beat cautious walking, how 109 Atlas falls became a method, and why robots still need a second kind of intelligence.
40:58ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakers99% of Factory Robots Are Dumb. Covariant Wants the Smart Ones Working in Warehouses FirstHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFormer OpenAI researcher Peter Chen explains why robot foundation models have to be trained on production floors, not in labs.
2:18:25ENLex Fridman· Sep 1, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersGrow Everything: Neri Oxman on Giving Nature a VoteGuest Neri Oxman · Host Lex FridmanThe designer-scientist who left MIT to build OXMAN talks silkworm pavilions, bees in space, and why the end of human agency might be the start of nature's.
2:07:04ENLex Fridman· May 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Ribosome Already Solved Digital ManufacturingGuest Neil Gershenfeld · Host Lex FridmanNeil Gershenfeld tells Lex Fridman why Turing separated the head from the tape, how fab labs are the personal-computer moment for making things, and what it would take to grow a civilization from about twenty parts.
2:27:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIt took Atlas fourteen years to walk the way Playter wantedGuest Robert Playter · Host Lex FridmanBoston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter traces thirty years from a MIT basement pogo stick to Atlas, Spot, and Stretch — and why the company still designs machines that are allowed to fall.
1:59:13ENLex Fridman· Apr 16, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSimone Giertz Spent Two and a Half Years on a Coat HangerGuest Simone Giertz · Host Lex FridmanThe inventor formerly known as the Queen of Shitty Robots talks with Lex Fridman about everyday objects, spectacular failure, a brain tumor, and why enthusiasm beats duty.
50:12ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Drone Is Only 15 Percent of the ProblemHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilZipline CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton on why blood delivery in Rwanda, not a cooler airplane, built the world's largest commercial autonomous system.Load moreShowing 24 of 62